Classic lessons from a little fish in a pork barrel : featuring the notorious story of the endangered snail darter and the TVA's final dam / Zygmunt J.B. Plater.
"The 'snail darter story' has become an iconic episode in modern American history -- a classic case regularly voted one of the top three Supreme Court environmental decisions but also enjoying dubious public notoriety as the 'most extreme environmental case ever'. Behind the fish marched a bedraggle...
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| Language: | English |
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Salt Lake City, Utah :
University of Utah Press,
2012.
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| Physical Description: | 28 pages ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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"The 'snail darter story' has become an iconic episode in modern American history -- a classic case regularly voted one of the top three Supreme Court environmental decisions but also enjoying dubious public notoriety as the 'most extreme environmental case ever'. Behind the fish marched a bedraggled coalition: farmers whose land was being condemned for resale to private developers, Cherokee Indians, fishermen, local conservationists, and Zygmunt Plater and his students. They carried the campaign through federal agencies, a succession of skeptical courtrooms, two White House administrations, repeated struggles with lobbyists in House and Senate battles, and frustrations with the vagaries of the national press"--Back cover. |
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| Note: | "2011 Wallace Stegner Lecture"--Cover. "This lecture was originally delivered at the Sixteenth Annual Symposium of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, March 10, 2011."--Title page verso. |
| Call Number: | QL84.2 .P5 2012 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781607811909 1607811901 |
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